Neighborcon in Knoxville, TN was Neighborly!
by Ethan on Jun.30, 2009, under Uncategorized
I ventured to Knoxville, TN over the weekend for a small con. I think the official attendance was around 27 people. It was good! People came from DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Lexington, Philly, Virginia and Maine (That I remember). Overall it was a great time, and fun to be able to discuss technical topics with knowledgeable people.
Neighborcon at the Yacht Club
HR-2600: Meeting Summary for June 5, 2009
by enferex on Jun.06, 2009, under Uncategorized
Despite the torrential downpour and threat of tornado action, the meeting was still on. In attendance, starting counter-clockwise from my seating position, was Remad, Andrew, Telemnstr, Jody, and myself (enferex). It was a pretty chill meeting, lots of discussion. So, what did we talk about? Tunnels/caves/inner-earth dwellings of mega-coolness. And, of course, we talked about Sneakers, and the new Star-Trek. While, I have yet to see this movie, Jody pulled out a killer rant on Spock and the temporal association with the Beastie Boy’s. In fact, I suggest, even if not a fan of either of the aforementioned nouns, to check Jody’s rant. Well, it still seems that the meeting is listed at Lynnhaven still. The proper listing-authorities have been contacted. But that’s how we operate, super-elusive, after-all no one really reads these summaries anyways.
Whoops, I was wrong. The official 2600 site does have the proper information listed. So I guess we aren’t as elusive as I originally mentioned.
-Matt (enferex)
AUVSI and ONR’s 2nd International Autonomous Surface Vehicle Competition
by Ethan on Jun.05, 2009, under Uncategorized
Heads up, there is a competition coming up in Virginia Beach of college level autonomous surface vehicles.
More info can be seen at the official site http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/surface.cfm.
It is happening on the 18th thru 21st of June 2009 at Founders Inn
in Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Continental VisiNet Broadband shutting down metro wireless
by Ethan on May.05, 2009, under Uncategorized
Customers of Continental VisiNet Broadband who subscribe to their business internet access that is delivered by fixed wireless equipment were notified that they will be shutting down this service on June 1, 2009.
The letter actually refers people to Cox, Verizon and Paetec (which was USLEC).
Oh yea, where’d wimax go?
May 1st, Raleigh 2600 meeting
by Ethan on May.02, 2009, under Uncategorized, business
I dissed the 757 crew and headed Southwest to Raleigh to drop in on their 2600 meeting. I got caught up at work and didn’t get out of Norfolk until around 3:30pm, which delayed me a bit. I had planned to leave at 2pm to make it by the start of their meeting at 5pm. This put me at the Raleigh 2600 around 6:45PM. It was great fun! I met Koft and his girlfriend Dana there (Koft used to live in Hampton R0ads). Saw a few familiar faces from Carolina Con and met new people. Discussion ranged from Ardunio /microcontrollers, to Crestron and other building/entertainment automation platforms, to software, and hardware. Definitely an interesting group of people. I finally forced myself to leave at 11pm, and I have to admit time flew. The group was moving the meeting outside of the coffee shop at this point, the meeting apparently was far from over. In the future I will drop in on their meeting again, but first might have to pay a return visit to the DC 2600 meetings. Around the 1994 – 1996 time frame other locals and myself would make the road trip up there as we didn’t have a meeting here. Perhaps in a few months!
HR-2600: Meeting Summary for May 1, 2009
by enferex on May.02, 2009, under hr2600
Allright! May 1, and we still had a crowd. In attendance (initial seating order, no we are not sheeple) was RD, Dane, Dane’s Wife’s Eeeeeeeee, Dave, Sunpuke, Beck, and myself. Okokok, so an Eee does not really constitute as a living being, or does it? Since we only have a vague idea of what constitutes life…. probably has some carbon in there too.
The meeting was great, mall was quiet, and only a handful of people had their protective respiration masks on (ok actually no one had a mask on afaik). There was lots of talk. And talk of? Ahh many topics, I balk at providing actual topic data since. Anyways, even though we were not at a single round-table, our linear table arrangement worked well by leaving a gap between the tables. A linear configuration does not necessarily strengthen communication between nodes, as if we were some graph; However, our graph morphs by letting the nodes move around, and we can control the ordering and amplitude of our voices to accomplish the goals of expressing thoughts. This assumes that words really are a medium that is sufficient for exposing all data in a thought.
Where was tele? He caught up with the Raleigh 2600 crew, so hopefully they had a cool time too.
-Matt (enferex)
Matt’s Been Getting Around!
by adam on Apr.20, 2009, under computers, security
In addition to his previously mentioned 2600 Magazine publication, Matt has been published in the (arguably more prestigious) Dr. Dobb’s Journal. You can find his article, detailing a multi-threaded PRNG implementation, here.
Congrats!
Matt is published in the current 2600 magazine
by Ethan on Apr.19, 2009, under Uncategorized
For that that haven’t caught it yet, Enferex (Matt) has an article published in the current (Spring) edition of “2600 – The Hacker Quarterly.” The title of the article is “MP3 Data Stream as a Covert Means of Distributing Information.” Page 16. 2600 can be found at any Barnes & Nobles.
CarolinaCon 2009 – Great!
by Ethan on Apr.19, 2009, under security
Erik and myself headed down to CarolinaCon in Durham a few weeks ago. Have to say, it was fun! It’s a very small con, perhaps 100 people. There were some great presentations ranging in subjects from the McColo story (a co-location facility that housed a large number of servers used by people committing fraud and spamming). The story included how people got them de-peered so they were disconnected from the internet and why it’s gone. TXS spoke on reverse engineering subjects, and some other talks that slip my mind at the moment. Sorry for the late update, but I had to say it was fun! Had hoped to make NotACon this year, but once again missed it. Perhaps more locals will make Carolina Con next year?
HR-2600: Meeting Summary for April 3, 2009
by enferex on Apr.04, 2009, under hr2600
Wow, probably one of the shortest 2600 meetings ever. That was not a bad thing per-se, as many of us had plans that occurred around the same time. What this does suggest is the dedication of people coming out. Even though some had plans, people still tucked away the meeting in their agenda. This month, the attendance was, in clock-wise order from where I sat: tele, cdated derez, x17root, Justin, Dave, remad, and myself.
Sunpuke did not make it out, as he was scoring some most-leet seats at the Jewish Mother, for a concert, to which a few of us attended. “Most-leet seats you say Bill?” … “That’s right Ted!” … “wiggly wiggly weeewwww!” (Bill and Ted reference), and their most non-bodacious dudical vernacular. Till next month?, keep it out of the middle endian.
-Matt (enferex).
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